The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1904. = e IR Will You Help'A Sick Friend? '[HE_S.(AFFOLD Get My Book For Him Now. Which Book 1 on Dyspepsia shall fiook o0 e Kidners Sentence of Death Passed Upon ok for Wom 5 wad? ok sher Manbualol) Indian Lad Is Commuted by Sendmesomeney. Nevada Board of Pardons You certainly know of some one who is sick—some sufferer who w be grateful for the help my book offers. Ard that i heip. T ells of 3 wa ofier that help on trial. * 30 years mn hospitals and at bed- deep-sected and difh- ected my prescription by scientihc experi- bring on chronic dis- CITIZENS ASK LENIENCY Friends of Prisoner to Make an Effort to Secure His Re- lease From the Penitentiary —_— CARSON, Nev., Jan. 20.—At a session of the State Board of Pardons held to- day the sentence of death imposed on Cochi Seegmuller, an Indian, was com- muted to life imprisonment. He Kkilled William Williams, who was better known as “Wild Bill,” and who was re- TDr Shoop's ment | trace¢ ot that where there wasa weakness, eak there was a lack | nerves lacked power. Where nd, 1 always found weak nerves hought of, but the vital or- Visible nerves ny real success began. ients that would strengthen, these nerves. That prescription | 1t is known the world over now as ve. After that I did not fail 10 hundred In the extrenuely diff- or five years were one & cances incurable Bt ht 1, 4 rea truthof m ot vl power of Dr. | garded as one of the worst characters Restorat [ s iy waie 40 e in Southern Nevada. Seegmulier, who is sixteen years of age, was working | for Williams and when he asked for his *|wages he was run off the farm and | told that if he returned he would be | killed. Seegmuller returned and while | Williams was asleep shot him to death. After the murder the boy returned to | his parents’ camp, where he told of his * |crime. He was arrested soon afterward th me. Tora full month I will let e me for the book you "“‘fl"fihfi plea of guilty and was sentenced to bsolute secur- | hang at the State prison in this city “# you lon the 24th of this month. After the | sentence had been imposed ‘an effort | was made to secure the boy’s pardon, s many of the people jn his neighber- | hood believed that his act was one of great benefit to the entire section. 7ihe Judge that passed sentence was among those signing the petition for a commutation of the sentence. An effort will be made at the next meet- | ing of the Board of Pardons to secure | his pardon. —_—————————— DISCOURAGED CATTLEMAN KILLS HIMSELF ON RANCH 1f you can't do 4 e1] me about it Asa physician | will tell you book now—to-dav. Shoup, Racine, Wis t cured with X 8630, gain by Schilling’s “aking powder mices soda ! Becomes Despondent Because Hun- dreds of His Herd Die From the Drought and Disease. offee fiaworing extrzc amounts to at least a quaner;f but that isn’t all. SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 20.— Be- cause he had become discouraged on - %> = account of the death of hundreds of his cattle from drought and the prev- f disease among his herds, J . one of the oldest livestock raisers in Santa Barbara County, com- BRITISH COLUMBIA MAKES GOOD INDUSTRIAL SHOWING Material Advance Is Made During Past | T i3 suicide il o ver, Year Notwithstanding Fact That He was 61 years There Were Serious Strikes. \d had been engaged in the cat- \. B.C a 20.—A bulle- ss in this country since the u of Pri 70’s and was considered one of the ish « most successful stockmen in this sec- " il i- | tion of the State. Owing to the ab- st gives the out- of rain until a few davs ago | i yus min { the re’s cattle began dying for lack of nd the misfortune preyved d to such an extent that ang upon his coal 165,060 The ni he became deranzed. Save leaves a $19.2 large family. e i = - Negotiating for Purchase of Mines. ) early part SAN BERNARDID Jan. 20.— Wiih the exception | William Stawley of Riverside, repre- s 3 genting the heirs of the late A. G. Campbell, who was a large owner of 3 the Queen of the Night and St. George group of mines in the Search- light district, left this morning for the camp with several others interested in the properties to conclude negotia- tions for the sale of the mines to Salt Lake capitalists. the consideration named being $500.000. These proper- cent in eries 40 per cent. 21 productions s about $30.000,000. s £20,000.000, rease $3.000,001 the previous | ties are considered the richest in the ve X district. but owing to the death of —_———— Cmpbell have been tied up while his Town of Altadena to Incerporate. estate has been in the process of set- PAS J 20.—Residents | tlement. ' hy suburb of Altadena R R T a ¢ 7 he purpose of in- | Arizona Opposes Joint Statehood. < s of the sixth class. | PHOENIX, Ar Jan. 20.—Pur- 1 G. G. Green suant to the suggestion of Governor a . leaders | Brodie a circular letter the Board new town will | of Supervisors of this county has calied six ss meetings to be held t more wealth to the y other in Amer- n different towns of protest against joint tehood with New Mexico. Petitions ill be presented for the signatures of citizens and then forwarded to Wash- ington. Similar action will be taken . |in all the counties, as the sentiment , | against joint statehood is practically unanimous. ol R BERLIN, Jan. 20.—The debate in the Reich- stag yesterday over tha presence of Russian | secret police agents in Germany has been sus- pended to take up the estimates, but will be no distant date. trance by, e front to open | resumed |{and when called for trial entered a| Pfiglgtggfi\ ]{%flflgfi gt B GRAVE CHARGES PURSER CIVES HIS EVIDENCE * — | | Clings to Ladder on Side of Says That None of the Pas-l Freight Car and Is Carried’ sengers of the Lost Clallame Ten Miles Away From Home Objected to Going in Boats| | ——— ———— i FAINTS WHEN RESCUED| THOUGHT IT A GOOD PLAN Roar of the Train Drowns His| i Captain of One of the Rescue - . > N, 3 2 Voice When He Calls to the; Tugs Outlines the Work He Brakeman to Go to His Aid t Performed in Saving Lives SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 20.—James | SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—Captain Charles Burns, the young son of a well-known | C. Manter, master of one of the res- San Bernardino architect, had an ex-| cue tugs, and Frank Treer, purser of[ perience to-day which he will not soon | i | the lost vessel, were the principal wit- | forget. He and several companions | nesses in the Clallam disaster investi- were playing near the Santa Fe R:il- Esflllcn to-day.» Briefly Captain Manter road track on 1 street when they de- | outlined the part he and his vessel had | cided to climb on a treighvt train which‘ ! played in the rescue of the passengers | hid Slgpged '°‘"r"‘"‘“3"' When “'Efl“fa‘s i | and the crew of the Clallam immeaate. | started Burns failed to jump off and| {1y after the steamer foundered. Treer | as it increased its speed he became S i 5 SIVRiE A0 @0 gk The af sk Salind Bk | described the scenes prior to the -ink- | | help, but the roar of the train drowned | ling of the vessel Trom the time he be- his voice. Then he clung to the ladder | :gan distributing life preservers up un- ! | on the side of the car, expecting each | i til a fc minutes before the Clallam | | minute to be swept off by the rushing | went down. His was one of the nar- | {wind. Peovle who saw him clinging | rowest escapes. there waved their arms wildly at the | | Captain Manter was asked various | | train crew, who waved their hals‘ in 1’:‘ i s, questions as to the state « the weather “ | answer, never for a moment suspecting T ! between 9 and 9:30 o’ciock, about the | the real cause of the unusuai attention JUSTICE W. B. HOOKER. OF * | | time the Holvoke reached the Clallam. | | which the train was attracting. At NEW YORK BENCH, NOW | | He renlied that he could not tell just | Verdemont, ten miles away, the traia | UNDER CHARGES. | | what it was there, but that at 9 o'clock 3 | when he was going down the Sound he had to take to a siding, and then it was that the bit of a form clinging with superhuman effort to the ladder | was discovered. Young Burns dropped unconscious into the strong arms of| a trainman and for awhile it was supposed he was seriously injured, but he soon revived and told the story of his frightful ride. His hands were raw where he clutched the ladder and nis knees were black and blue where they W. B. Hooker of New York Is Involved in the Postal | Scandal. —_— i ALBANY, N. Y.. Jan. 20.—F‘ormll; had pounded against the car. charges of the Bar Association of | ; » £ Jamestown against State Supremei COVRT. IS ASKED TO REMOVE Court Justice W. B. Hooker, former GUARDIAN ‘OF MINOR uE‘Rs‘representati\'c in Congress, were | brought before the State Bar Associ- | ation to-day. The charges quote the | report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster | General Bristow relative to alleged ir- | regularities in the postoffices at Dun-‘i kirk and Fredonia, with reference to | appointments and rentals of post- | office buildings, and sets forth that M. H. Tavlor, named in General Bris-| tow's report, was apnointed Postmas- ter at Dunkirk upon Justice Hooker’s | recommendation, and that Justice! Hooker was and is one of the own- | ers of the postoffice building at Dun- | kirk, alleged to have been the subject | | Hotel in this city divided among the|©f excessive rental. The Jamestown | )heirs. instead of going to the u-usl,iaxsoc(aliou believes the time has ar- | | Abbie Campbell Kawananakoa, the wife | rived when it is imperative that | | of Prince David, is said to be the prime | Justice Hooker should, in defense of | mover in the matter. the character of the bench, which it | It is alleged that Gear obtained his|is his high duty to ‘“preserve untar- | appointment as guardian in an irregu- | nished, to make public answer to the ‘Widow of the Late Millionaire James Campbell Makes a Sensational Move in Pending Litigation. | SAN JOSE, Jan. 20.—A motion will be | | made in Judge Rhodes’ court next Fri- | dav for the removal of H. L. Gear of | S8an Francisco as guaraian ad litem of,| i the estate of Mary and Muriel Camp- | bell, minor heirs of the late millionaire |. | James Campbell. The action is taken | by Attorney C. T. Bird of this city at| i the request of Mrs. Abigail Campbell- | | Parker, mother of the heirs, and the| | trustees of the estate. Gear is attack- | ing the estate and wants some $200,000 received from the sale of the St. James | Affant further asks that the acts of | Pay a Visit to San Jose. | hard. found it very rough. It was blowing | | Captain Manter stated that he first | approached the Clallam to within 100 | feet, but that he cid not care to get closer. | “We (the Sea Lion) could not get up alongside,” said the captain. “If I had | got alongside the Clallam and we had | come together that would have been the last of the Sea Lion, too.” 5 Purser Treer testified that the first information he had of anything being wrong on the Clallam came from Chief Engineer de Launay® “Half an hour after I talked with the chief I got out the life preservers and it was perhaps within forty minutes from the conversation with the chief that the boats were lowered. It was no great length of time in any event,” said the witness. ‘“Was there any protest from those aboard about the people’ going i.. the boats?"” was asked. “None at all. Everybody seemed to | think it the best course. I certainly did. Yes, 1 thought it a goed plan to | lzunch the boats at that time and ap- | parently everyvbody thought it a good | plan.” [TAH T0 HAVE NEW RAILRO1D tract has becn signed by J. J. Burns, | |1ar manner. He gave no notice, it i3, accusations against him.” The James- !said, to the natural guardian of the |town association submifs its statement | | children and while he claims his|to the State association for whatever § 3 ! |action is friendly to the children it is | action the latter body may see fit to | Plans on Foot to Extend the hostile to their interests. It is alleged | take. < & . | that on the same day that similar pro- | ———————— ‘ Salt Lake and Ogden Llne; ceedings were set aside in Judge Hy-| STOCKMEN ARE GUESTS ! From Farmington to Ogden |land’s court Gear went vefore Judge | OF THE GARDEN CITY = | Rhodes afid secured an order making | et i e ! him guardian. Tt is also alleged that | Delegates Returning From the Na-| SALT LAKE. Utah, Jan. 20.—The | Gear does not even know the minors.| (ional Convention at Poriland | Tribune to-morrow will say: - A con-| | | said guardian to make it appear that | | their mother has defrauded the minors | be suppressed. ————— Awards Franchise for New Wharf. |, oo o a0 SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20.—The San|tion recently Diego Union Railway and Ship Ter-!The party left San Francisco on 2 spe- | minal Company to-day was awarded ! cjal train this morning and made a | a franchise for the construction of a|siop of a couple of hours at Stanford | wharf at the foot of Twentieth street ! University. A committee from the by the Harbor Commissioners. The | Chamber of Commerce met the visit- franchise has been accepted by the ors at the depot and escorted them to ! directors of the company. It is pro-!the Hotels Vendome and St. James. vided in the franchise that the ('0m~1'rhiz afternoon they were taken on an pany has the right to build a warf | excursion to Alum Rock Park. 100 feet in width, 2300 feet into deep| A reception was tendered to the water and that a right of way of the |stockmen at the Chamber of Com-! same width be granted from the com- | merce rooms this evening. Mrs. W. | pany’s land on the front across the C. Kennedy, president of the Woman's | tide lands to the commencement of | Club, and other ladies were present to | the wharf. Construction must com- | greet the ladies in the party. There | mence within three months and the,K was a musical programme and light wharf must be completed inside of | punch was served. | two years or the franchise will be‘; The visitors will be taken to‘mo‘rrowi | | 0.—About of them accom- arrived here | are returning nl livestock conven-' held at Portland, Ore. | SAN JOSE, Jan. five stockmen, m | panied by their Ithis afternoon. ty- forfeited. | for a drive through the orchard sec- | tions of the vailley and will be served | ADVERTISEMENTS. | with lunch at Sorosis fruit farm. 1In | | the afternoon they will leave for San | managér of the Chicago and South | Shore Railway, and Simon Bamberger, | owner c¢f the Salt Lake and Ogden Rail- | road, for the extension of the latter | road from Farmington, Utah, to Ogden within a short time. | Plans have been made for the equip- | ment of the road for electrical traction and the institution of an hourly ser- vice between the two cities. The line is to be laid with 60-pound steel rails | and a large sum will be invested in | passenger coaches of the most modern | pattern. By the terms of the contract the | capital stock of the Salt Lake and Og- | den Railroad will be increased to| $1,000,000-and $1.060.000 in bonds will be | issued. and the work of construction is to commence within forty days. ' ! body will be taken to Washington on ] bonds, as the time on the options on the pr Was Given Up "o Pe_ru-na Saved Her Life. so commen in the winter months.) MRS. COL. GRESHAM BY THE DOCTORS. (It was catarrh of the lungs, 's_..'-"/ M5 5JENNIE DRISCOLL 370 Put- Y., writes: Miss Jennie Driscoll, nam Ave., Brooklys, N. ““If people knew how efficient Peruna was in the curs of ca- tarrh, they would not hesitate to try it. | have all the farth in the world mn it, as it cured me, and / have never known of a case when the person was not cured n a short time.”"—Jennie Dris- coll. S R LPE S ~ Mrs. Col. E. J. Gresham. Treasurer Daughters of the Confederacy and { President Hernden Village Improvem , writes the following letter from Hernden, Fairfax Co., Va.: Hernden, Va. The Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen— "'l cannot speak too highly of the value of Peruna. | belisve that | owe my Iife fo its wonderful merits. | suffered with cafarrh of the head and lungs in its worst form, until the dectors fairly gave me up, and | despaired of ever getting well again. ““I noticed your advertisement and the splendid testimonials given by the people who had been cured by Peruna, and determned to try a boitle. | felt but little better, but used a second and third bottie and kept on improving slowly. ““It togk six bottles to cure me, but they were worth a King's ran- som to ms. | talk Peruna to all my friends and am a true believer in its worth.”"—Mrs. Col. E. J. Gresham. e N A A e i e P g 1 the unfortunate ones. Little or ro risk need be run !f Peruna is kept in the house and at the first appearance of any ‘mptom of catarrh taken as directed on the bottle. | Peruna is a safeguard. is a prevent- ive. a specific. is a cure for all cases of tarrh, acute and chronic, coughs, colds, consumption. etc. If you do not receive prompt and sat- factory results from the use of Pe- na, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giv- ing a full statement of your case, and he JA PLAIN TALK On a Plain Subject in Plain Lan;uage. The coming winter will cause at least one-half of the women to have catarrh, colds, coughs. pneumonia or consump- | tion. Thousands of women will lose | their lives and tens of thousands will quire some chronic ail- | ment from which they will | never recover. | will be pleased to give you his valuable I'nless you take the neces- | advice gratis ' sary pr | _Address Dr. Hartman. President of chane 0 | The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Smithson’s Body Returned. 1 Leadville Heiress to Wed. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—The body of | COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., Jan. John Smithson, founder of the Smith- | 20.—Mrs. Beulah Trimble Poweil, sonian Institution at Washington. who | gaughter of George W. Trimble, the died in Genoa in 1829, arri Leadville banker and owner of the ol g el s Little Johnny mine, who is reputed to BOGY “was. Aceapaiiied | Iy * | be the wealthiest heiress qf the West, Alexander Graham Bell of the S . : sonian Institution and Mrs. Bell, who | Will be married to-morrow evening to went to Italy for this purpese. The | W. L. Edwards, a prominent clubman . and son of Colonel Eu- the United States dispatch boat Dol- phin to-morrow. fsiasd i il 5t SRS NAPA. Jan. 20.—The City Council has d cided to act with dispatch in the issuanc A resolution declaring friendship between the tates and Great Hritan and Ireland™ ssity for the prosperity of commes for a park_will expire by t ity Attorney York has been i for an extension of time on the ¢ should be necessary. arbitration between the countries, was adopted at_the annual meeting of the Mase sachusetts State Board of Trade to-day. tions if such THE DAY’S DEAD. | ¥+ Alameda County Deaths. OAKLAND, Jan. 20.—T. W. Strow- FU RNISHING GOODS NEWS { Francisco by way of Niles. —_—————— | Start With Proyisions for Fairbanks. Thursdav, Friday, Saturday Special All 50c Neckwear Except Blacks and Whites) A 5 Cents SHIRT “SPECIA L 25 dozen $1.50 Stiff Bosom Colored Shirts FOUR-IN-HANDS, SQUARES, TECKS, BOWS. TIES $1.15 DRESS SHIRTS $1.50 Star Dress Shirts—Sizes Broken On Hand—14%, 13, 1524, 16 wds ROOS BROS. KEARNY AT POST SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 20.—A spe- |cial to the Post-Intelligencer from i Vaides. Alaska. says: A party of ten, ! headed by Ike Loomis, left here for Fairbanks vesterday with ten tons of | bacon. sugar and milk. The distance | is 395 miles and will be covered in | i about twenty-five days. The supplies | will reach Fairbanks long before any can be shipped via Dawson, the route | | from Dawson being 700 miles longer ! than the Valdes route. ! — e 3 { Insurance Solicitor Commits Suicide. | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.—George FOR | W. Groff, an insurance solicitor, com- mitted suicide at his home at 837 $1.00 West Twenty-ninth street to-day by | shooting himself in the Head with a i revolver. Groff was of a morose dis- rposmon and is sald to have brooded i over the recent elopement and mar- 'rizge of his daughter. He was 45 ]yearc of age. e R | Find Body of Unmidentified n. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20.—The Coroner | this evening held an inquest over the emains of an unknown man, prob- death. The jury found that he died from unknown causes. \ —————- Fighting for Life of Murderer. SALEM, Ore, Jan. 20.—The at- torneys of Pleasant Armstrong, who is under sentence to be hanged Friday at Baker City, to-day argued his case be- fore the State Supreme Court on its merits and an opinion is expected to- morrow. Inasmuch as this tribunal refused to grant a stay of execution when application was made last week, there is little hope of relief from that quarter % ’ 17% \ 1 a6 g ? Passing of Montana Pioneer. | HELENA, Mont, Jan. 20.—David ably an Italian, who was found dead S o { this morning at Tia Juana. on this side | Famous Gun Inventor Dies. | of the boundary line. There was neth- BERLIN, Jan. 20.—Baron von' ‘ing en the body to afford any clew to | Mannlicher, inventor of the Mann- the identity of the deceased. It was | lichef rifie, is dead. not apparent how he came to his! ———————— | locusts, another for rats, an | bridge died at his home on the cor- i ner of Eighth and Kirkham streets to- | day at the advanced age of 84 years. He was at one time one of the most [ wealthy residents of Southern Cali- fornia, but has been in reduced cir- cumstances of late. Mrs. T. H. White died at her home in East Oakland yesterday at the age of 62 years. Bruce Hamilton Held, a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, died Saturday at his home on Syeca- more street. He leaves a wife and twof children. i years of age and a pio- 3 i2 Giimore, neer of Montana, heart failure in his cabjn in the moun- tains west of Helena to-C.y. Gilmore discovered Bald Butte mine, for many vears leading producing property in the State. He died in poverty. —_—— Inventor of Machinery Dead. CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, Jan. 20.— Mayor J. M. May. Inventor of farm machinery, is dead, aged 90 years. He once owned a portion of this city, but died in poverty. | i Santa Fe Makes a Change. i TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 20.—The of- ' ficial headquarters of the Santa Fe superintendent of transportation will be removed to Chicago. e died suddenly of j A fatal parasitic disease has been successfully used on a large scale to destroy the grasshopper, another for d a prize has recently been won for the discovery of an insect which will destroy the cot- ton boll weevil, . at Sap Francisco Gas and Electric Com- pany, 415 Post street. - S " broken assortments—hence the big Special Sale of Fancy Vest This is a special sale ¢ reduction. . The Vests-are our own make—they --erc values at their former prices. . 2 They are made in single and double breasted style from matelasse, silk, silk mixed worsted, silk mercerized, velvet, all- wool worsted, basket weave and matting; the colors are black, brown, blue, gray and tan with neat cojored figures: sizes from 33 to 44 inches chest measure. y The tormer prices were $5.00, $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 and $2.50. The special sale price is $1.85 Out-of-Town Orders Filled—Write Us. - SNWOo0D§(0 740 Market Stree